Harvey Fierstein
Known for Acting
Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He also wrote the book for the musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning "Kinky Boots". He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.
Filmography
Mulan
1998
as Yao (voice)
Independence Day
1996
as Marty Gilbert
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
as Frank
Mulan II
2004
as Yao (voice)
Bros
2022
as Louis
Duplex
2003
as Kenneth
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
as Sid Loomis
Animal Crackers
2018
as Esmerelda (voice)
Newsies
2017
Musical
Death to Smoochy
2002
as Merv Green
Foodfight!
2012
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Safe Men
1998
as Good Stuff Leo
Kull the Conqueror
1997
as Juba
The Celluloid Closet
1996
as Self
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Host
The Wiz Live!
2015
Writer
Hairspray Live!
2016
as Edna Turnblad
Hairspray Live!
2016
Teleplay
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995
as Yves DuBois
White Lies
1997
as Art Hoarder